"True, it may nevertheless, be an amelioration of their original state;
they may fall into the hands of a Christian people, and hundreds of
thousands of them be civilized, and be converted to Christianity;
redeemed from a barbarous condition they may contribute immensely to the
general good of the race both as producers and consumers. Wherever
commerce needs them, unquestionably they will do more good to the world
by being compelled to work than by wearing out their miserable and
useless existence in Africa.
"All this may be true; still, is it not a curse to be hewers of wood and
drawers of water? Does not God say to Israel that if they sin, they
'shall be the tail and not the head?' National degradation, exposing a
people to be the prey and the captives of a superior race, is, of
course, a curse, though, like death itself, and even sin, it may, by the
grace of God, turn to good. Still, it is a curse.
"But in governing a fallen world like ours, God now and then ordains
the subjection of one race to another; and he makes bondage one of his
ordinances as truly as war. The extermination of the Canaanites by the
sword, was an ordinance of Heaven. War is a part of God's method in
governing the world; as well as sickness and death.
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